{"id":5400,"date":"2016-04-27T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:38:24","slug":"brown-mary-ward-1917-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5400","title":{"rendered":"BROWN, MARY WARD, 1917-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer.\u00a0 Born June 18, 1917, Hamburg, Ala.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas Ira and Mary Hubbard Ward.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Charles Kirtley Brown, June 18, 1939.\u00a0 Children&#8211; one.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Judson College, B.A., 1938.\u00a0 Additional study in creative writing&#8211; University of Alabama, University of North Carolina.\u00a0 Publicity director at Judson College, 1938-39; affiliated with the Office of Guidance and Counseling, Marion Military Institute.\u00a0 Contributed short stories to periodicals and anthologies. Received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award\/PEN American Center Award, 1987; Alabama Library Association Fiction Award, 1987 and 2002; Lillian Smith Award, 1991; the Harper Lee Award from the Alabama Writers Forum, 2002; Hillsdale Fiction Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.\u00a0 Died May 14, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fanning the Flame: A Memoir.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>It Wasn&#8217;t All Dancing, and Other Stories.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Tongues of Flame.\u00a0 New York: Dutton, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of Mary Ward Brown are held by the Special Collections Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer.\u00a0 Born June 18, 1917, Hamburg, Ala.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas Ira and Mary Hubbard Ward.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Charles Kirtley Brown, June 18, 1939.\u00a0 Children&#8211; one.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Judson College, B.A., 1938.\u00a0 Additional study in creative writing&#8211; University of Alabama, University of North Carolina.\u00a0 Publicity director at Judson College, 1938-39; affiliated with the Office of Guidance and Counseling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}